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Max
That night, I had a nightmare. We were all still at Camp Half Blood, but none of us were together. Fang was hanging out with another emo looking kid about twelve years old and a red head with paint-splattered jeans was walking beside him too close for comfort. Nudge was with a bunch of girly looking girls who were wearing way too revealing clothes. Gazzy was pranking some tough looking girl with those two look alikes in the Hermes cabin. Iggy was making something in the forges with some burly looking kids and Angel was mind controlling some poor sap to jump in the lake.
I walked up to Fang and caught his shoulder so he would stop.
"Hey Fang, wanna' go for a fly?" I asked.
"Can't." He replied annoyed and then the three walked off. Fine, be that way, I thought scornfully. I walked over to Iggy next.
"Hey Ig' want to go flying?" I asked. He looked at me with a, not now look and continued welding something. What was these two? Have they forgotten that the flock came first? I walked up to Nudge and hoped she would be different.
"Hey Nudge, wanna' go flying?" I asked. She rolled her eyes at me and made a look to the girls that they laughed at. I noticed that her pink clothes looked just as skimpy as the others.
"Why would I? We were going to go to see if Rachel and Fang's relationship was working. I'm so glad that those two got together. After all she's a super great artist and made a picture of me on a fashion runway for setting those two up. Next, we'll work on getting Nico a girlfriend so he won't be as depressed as usual. Oh don't you love it here Max? We've only been here a week and we're already fitting in. I never want to leave!" She rambled.
"Nudge we have to leave eventually." I reasoned.
"I won't go with you. I want to stay and nobody else will go with you either. Don't leave Max. For us. We can finally be free here and grow up." She refused. I walked away knowing that it wasn't at all free. We were trapped inside camp borders and Chiron was forbidding us to fly. The others were even listening to him! Now it wasn't like I was their leader anymore. It was like I was their enemy trying to get them to leave. In just a week the flock had grown apart and ditched each other. I was the only one even trying to stay together. I stormed straight into the Big House to see Chiron.
"Hello Max. Why aren't you at the rock wall for training?" He greeted. I glared at him harder then I had ever glared at anyone before in my life. He didn't even flinch.
"You lied! You said my flock would be safer here and could stay together! They are all separated though now and what's worse is they don't even see how the gods are using them! They're being used more then the school or the CSM and every one around here is fine with it! Well I'm not! I refuse to be part of whatever this is! I'm not going to be some little toy that they can push around and don't even care enough to claim!" I screamed at him.
He looked about to reason with me, but I stormed out of there and into the forest. I walked and walked, ignoring their voices yelling for me to come back and eventually found Zeus' fist. I sat there for an hour wanting to cry, but staying strong. I wouldn't let them get to me. I was on my own now.
"You don't have to be." A voice said. I turned to see a young adult smiling at me with his hand offered. His pale blonde hair was parted at the sides so I saw a scar running down his face underneath a blue eye.
I woke up gasping for air at what I just saw. Sweat was drenching down my face and there was a moist wetness in my eyes. I put my hand up to touch them and felt tears stinging my eyes. I looked around at my flock, or what was in this cabin. Gazzy and Angel were asleep, but Fang was staring at me. You okay, he asked me. I nodded but he didn't seem convinced at all. He plopped out of his bed and walked over to mine. He was leaning on the ladder and my head was brushing the ceiling.
"Care to tell me what's wrong?" He asked in the no nonsense voice I taught him.
"Not really. Just go back to bed." I told him. He only came further up the ladder. Why doesn't he ever listen to me?
"I'm not leaving 'till you tell me." He stated. I knew he was serious.
"Nothing is wrong." I lied.
"You never cry." He stated brushing a tear off of my eyelash.
"I just have a really bad feeling about this place. Like we'll all drift apart at some point and not even speak with each other anymore. Like we'll leave each other, but stay at the same place." I explained.
"That won't happen Max. I promise you with my life that we will stay together." He promised.
"Hey do you know anything about a boy with blue eyes and a scar running down his face?" I asked. He shook his head, but another boy came out of his bunk. I think his name was Travis.
"That's Luke. He betrayed the gods and joined Kronos. He was a son of Hermes, the cabin leader in fact. Now Conner and I are co leaders." Travis explained.
"Why did he betray them?" I asked.
"Luke only saw his dad once in the nineteen years of his life. For fourteen of those years he had to live with his crazy mother and he was convinced his dad didn't love him since he didn't come to help." Connor explained solemnly.
"So what's so great about the gods?" I asked. I knew where the Luke kid was coming from with the absent father. Except I had to deal with crazy scientists experimenting on me. Whatever though.
"They're our family." Travis said. Or was it Conner?
"And?" Fang asked.
"What more is there to say? The world would be in ruins if they weren't in charge." Connor stated uncomfortably.
"The world is in ruins." I countered.
"You'll see why we support them eventually." Travis muttered. Then they crawled into their bunks leaving Fang and I alone. We both hear one of them mutter something else though, "If she ends up being important and still thinks this the gods will kill her for sure." Fang and I both looked at each other.
"Sounds like a lovely bunch of relatives." I murmured sarcastically. He nodded, a half smile on his face. I remembered something else that had flashed through my mind during Hestia's home schooling. Demigod dreams always ended up coming true. Either past present or future that meant that in a week Fang would break his promise. We had to get out of this place.
Anika: Wow. Fang has an issue with promises.
Aj: Yep. Remember to review for another chapter today. –Aj.
